"Add Attachments" button for LiveCycle form

Check out Thom Parker's answer to this at:
http://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/aucbb/viewtopic.php?id=13598

Hi Ikassuba (Really is this possible?) The link you mentioned above could not found

I am looking around all most all formus I could go... looks like there is no way my form can allows to Adobe reader users to add attachments? Once after "Enable usage right option for basic free adobe reader users"Some told me LiveCycle possible and some says Acrobat possible??

I did create form using both options and finally stuck some where? I have no plan to look for expensive the LiveCycle server which cost five digit which I dont have..

I know one script pass around on net but no one realize that need to use with LiveCycle server. again no point.

I dont really understand why Adobe cant include this option to thier product? Why keep pointing to other product which impossible to get?

Only way I can do is ask basic users to add attahment as comments. Howvere again once I collect forms from them I cant do bulk extracting of those attachments?

Is there any other way any one of you know?

Sofar only two gentalman atleast give me some advise and help but still not managed to solve my problems..I felt bad as this is my first assignment given to me by my boss but coud not complete..its just simple job application form and I just want free adobe users to fill it and add their CV/Cover letter into form and send to me. Then I will extract them by bulk. I know I can extract all fieds except attachements..

My email disssg [at] yahoo [dot] comThanks
Disssg

It's very straightforward to add attachments to a form with Acrobat using either the Commenting tools or the Attachment panel. The difficulty; however, comes when recipients of the form are only using Reader. Here are a few options when recipients are using Reader:

1. Use the [url=http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/readerextensions/]LiveCycle Reader Extensions ES Server product[/url] to enable the rights to embed files in your form (this is different than the Reader-enabling capabilities provided by Acrobat ).
2. If you're developing a form in Acrobat (not LiveCycle Designer), you can embed a file into submitted FDF data using the following steps (this is taken from Thom Parker's post):
a. Add a text field and a button field to the PDF.
b. Name the text field "FileSubmit",
c. On the options tab of the Text field properties dialog, check "Field is used for file selection".
d. Add this script to the MouseUp action of the button

this.getField("FileSubmit").browseForFileToSubmit();

e. Add a submit button to the form,
f. Set the button up to submit the data in FDF format. This is the only format that can embed file
data.

This setup will allow the user to submit a file, embedded in the FDF data. The next task of course is
for you to be able to extract the file from the FDF data. The Adobe FDF toolkit is a library of
functions for manipulating FDF data. It comes in versions for Perl, VB, C++, and ASP. However,
you'll have to write your own application, either desktop or server side.
3. Create a link to a file (where it is stored in a common location) and pass around the link. The link would have to to a web server (i.e. an HTTP connection). You will not be able to have a map to a drive or something like \\servername\folder as your link. Here is a link to an [url=https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=aa34539d-e790-4d58-8202-ee8a11b80b87]example (from Paul Guerette)[/url] of this technique. The PDF is an XDP and needs to be opened in LiveCycle Designer.